Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The point of order that Senator Parry was trying to make indicates how embarrassing this is for the Liberal Party, including, in particular, the Tasmanian Liberal Party. Your Prime Minister says that environmental considerations will be fully satisfied before this pulp mill will go ahead. The Greens endorse that, come in here and say, ‘Let’s have that put to the test,’ and government members vote it down. It is time you did your homework. It is time you joined in solidarity with Prime Minister Howard on this to fully satisfy the environmental considerations outlined by the Prime Minister. There is a split in the Liberal Party. It does not know what it is doing. Senator Abetz should go and see the Prime Minister and explain how he got it so wrong in the Senate chamber today over the pulp mill.